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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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What’s the most difficult question you’ve been asked as a maintenance instructor?
Blye Widmar
"Where are the prints?!"
This was the final question in an onslaught of verbal feedback, comments, and critiques I received from my students back in 2019. I had two years of instructor experience and was teaching a class that had been meticulously rehearsed in preparation for an accreditation visit. I knew the training material well and transferred that knowledge effectively enough for all the students to pass the class. As we wrapped up, I asked the students how they felt about my first big system-level class, and they did not hold back.
“Why was the exam from memory when we don’t work from memory in the plant?” “Why didn’t we refer to the vendor documents?” “Why didn’t we practice more on the mock-up?” And so on.
Technical Session|Sponsored by HFICD
Monday, November 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Sonoran 2
Session Chair:
Nancy J. Lybeck
Alternate Chair:
Vivek Agarwal
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Development of the Methodology for Degradation Emulation of Primary Salt Pump in High-Temperature Fluoride Salt Test Facility
3:15–3:35PM MST
Dongyeol Yeo (Univ. Michigan), Victor Petrov (Univ. Michigan), Annalisa Manera (Univ. Michigan)
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Transfer Learning Long Short-Term Memory (TL-LSTM) Network for Molten Salt Reactor Sensor Monitoring
3:35–3:55PM MST
Stella Pantopoulou (Purdue), Anthonie Cilliers (Kairos Power), Lefteri Tsoukalas (Purdue), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Multi-Sensor Data Acquisition System for Monitoring Fuel Reprocess Systems
3:55–4:15PM MST
J.D. Hix (INL), J.T. Johnson (INL), E.S. Cardenas (INL), L. A. Ocampo Giraldo (INL)
Neuro-Fuzzy Predictive Power Controller for a Nuclear Research Reactor
4:15–4:35PM MST
Rita Appiah (Purdue), Muhammad Rizki Oktavian (Purdue), Lefteri H. Tsoukalas (Purdue)
Forecasting of Nuclear Reactor Outages Using Machine Learning
4:35–4:55PM MST
Konstantinos Prantikos (Purdue), Lefteri H. Tsoukalas (Purdue), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
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